Re: help!

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 19:52, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> gnome-terminal has a ton of open bugs, and I'm despairing of ever
> fixing any, since I need to triage the mess first. I had a "169 OPEN
> BUGS WHAT THE FUCK" moment on IRC the other day. ;-)
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are lots of:
> 
>  - duplicates
> 
>  - gnome 1.4 terminal bugs from bug-buddy
> 
>  - stuff that should be reassigned to libzvt or vte
> 
>  - bugs that are already fixed
> 
> For any bug that involves terminal emulation (how characters are
> displayed, whether text input works, etc.) we need to establish vte or
> libzvt, whether it still happens with latest libzvt/vte, and move to
> vte or libzvt module.
> 
> So a quick pass to mark duplicates, ask "vte or zvt?" in any case
> where it's unclear and ->NEEDINFO, ask "does this still happen?" on
> most of the others and ->NEEDINFO, and generally mop it up, would be
> really really helpful... if anyone feels up to it, I'd love help on
> this module in bugzilla.
> 

OK, we've been able to make a reasonable first pass and weed it down to:

127 open bugs
 87 open bugs != enhancement requests
 79 open bugs != enhancement and != "future" milestone
 44 NEEDINFO

There are probably a few more in there we can weed out, but I think
we've picked most of the low-hanging fruit.

The question now is whether you want/need additional help to get things
categorized (priority, severity and target milestone). Where it's
obvious, I've already been marking up those categories a bit, but it
really depends on how you use them.

With the NEEDINFO's, I can just leave 'em, or go through and close 'em
if the reporter doesn't respond after, like, a month or so.

Cheers,
John
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